Immigration

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Immigration

• By Mercedes, Tanner, Amy, and Emily

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Introduction

• This presentation is about immigration. To get
  information we went to a web quest created by
  Miss Chaffee. This helped us throughout the
  process of completing it. We split up as
  journalists and got information on four different
  subjects that involve immigration. We also got
  information on other websites too.
• In this presentation you will find information
  on Ellis Island and Angel Island. Also, you will
  find the amount of immigrants in Massachusetts
  and what cultural riches immigrants brought to
  this country. We hope you enjoy!

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Ellis Island
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Ellis Island

• The Great Hall was a waiting room for Ellis
  Island. They waited for their interviews with
  legal inspectors after they finished their
  medical exams. It took three to five hours. Some
  people stayed at Ellis Island for days or weeks
  or even mouths. The dinner table could seat up to
  1,200 people. About hundreds of time a day,
  doctors had only minutes to inspect over 60
  illnesses. The medical exams were to see if they
  had diseases or illnesses.
• The original main building burned down in a
  fire in 1897. A new building was built three
  years later, but it was never big enough to
  handle the millions of people who entered the
  door. Ellis Island first open in 1892. The first
  immigrant to arrive was a 16 year old. He had to
  pass a literacy test in the language of their
  home country.
• Immigrants exchanged the money of their
  homeland for dollars and purchase any train
  tickets they needed. They needed 20 dollars to
  fly to America.
• By 1950 Europeans counted for only half of all
  immigrants, and they usually come by airplanes,
  if not steamship. More and more, the new arrivals
  came from Mexico and Latin American, or from
  Asian countries. Ellis Island had outlived its
  use as a processing center. By 1954, only a few
  dozen of immigrates placed the nearby empty floor
  of the Great Hall.

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Angel Island
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Angel Island

• Immigration
• Immigrants all over the world come to America
  for a better life. Li Ki Wong was born in 1926 in
  Goon Do Hung in southern China. Li didnt have a
  lot of money so her father did any work that was
  offered. Lee Wong was a Tomboy she mostly liked
  to climb trees. Her father comes and visited her
  once a year and one year he came and was
  disappointed in how the people lived. So he
  decided to immigrate with his family to America
  for a better lifestyle. Lis family decided to go
  in 1933.
• The father told Li and her sisters that there
  mom couldnt go into America married so they
  would call her Auntie when on the plane. Lis
  father told her to memorize the answers for the
  questions. Her father was very excited to be on a
  plane with his family. They had to travel by sea,
  foot, and train to only get to Hong Kong. In Hong
  Kong Li stayed in a hotel, it was her first time
  in one and her first time hearing English being
  spoken. It took 19 days to get to San Francisco
  bay from Hong Kong and from there they took a
  ferry to Angel Island. It was said that 175,
  000 Chinese people came through Angel Island.
  Everyone in Lis family (except there father) had
  to be detained in Angel Island. There was a lot
  of racism on Angel Island. Lis family was in a
  little cell with bard doors and windows. At a
  certain time of the day they got to eat in the
  lunchroom they ate all there Chinese food. Lis
  family got to be questioned a week after they got
  there. Finally they were released. Li lived in
  Oaklands Chinatown from 1933 to 1948. Li and her
  sister had to learn English in an extra help
  class. They finally worked enough to buy a house
  outside of China town. Later on Li Wong wrote a
  story called Journey to Gold Mountain, which was
  featured in a documentary in a Walt Disney movie
  called The American Tapestry. Li now lives with
  her husband Roger in San Leandro and has 3
  grandchildren and 2 children a boy and girl

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Immigration in Massachusetts
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Immigration in Massachusetts

• Many people immigrated to the U.S.A. for better
  jobs, money, and many other things. Many
  immigrants who came to America did not get a high
  school diploma. This all happened in the years
  2000 to 2003. 151,836 of them went to Boston.
  Most Massachusetts immigrants were from Brazil.
  For jobs in Massachusetts you would get from
  9,064 to 38,526 a year according to your
  English.
• One place we researched is Lynn. They had a
  population of 89,122 people. A lot of people came
  from Dominican Republic. They were also from
  Cambodia and Guatemala. People probably settled
  in other places because they might have more of
  their kind. Also, people would settle in other
  places because maybe the wanted a smaller
  population of people.
• Another place we researched is Duxbury. Duxbury
  has a population of 14,248 people. Most of the
  people in Duxbury came from Canada. They also
  came from Korea and North Europe. People might
  have settled in other places because they want a
  bigger amount of people around them. People also
  might have wanted more job choices.
• The last place we researched is Wareham. There
  population is 20,335 people. They were from
  Portugal. They were also from West Africa and
  Canada. Some people did not like because they
  wanted something that looked like their home
  town. They also might want to be near other
  family members.

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Cultural Contributions
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Cultural Contributions

• Cultures of Immigrants
• Immigrants have brought many wonderful things
  with them from the countries where they were
  born. Many of the things they brought were very
  important to their country.
• They have brought food like sushi (Japan),
  egg-foo young (China), Bisi Belle Baath (a West
  African pepper soup), tacos (Mexico), chicken,
  and lots of other foods, too. Pollo Loco is a
  sweet and spicy Dominican dish brought to the
  United States.
• They have also brought cultural clothing like
  the ones they wore in their country every day.
  Now we are wearing them too, just like they
  would.
• Immigrants have brought lots of musical
  instruments like guitars, and drums of all sorts.
  Africans that came to this country have brought
  some of the rhythms of their cultures. Moulin
  Rouge is musical originated in India.
• Immigrants have brought many words, phrases,
  and proud sayings of their country to the country
  which they immigrated to. Chinchilla and
  armadillo were words originated in Spain, Latin
  America, and Mexico, along with many others.
  Voodoo and yam were originated in West Africa.
  Cheetah and sapphire were originated in India and
  Pakistan. Sometimes the immigrants even continue
  in their education and help other people learn
  their countrys native language.
• Most of the immigrants most important pieces
  of artwork were murals. Some people from other
  countries sculpted statues as well. The people
  who migrate also bring along stories of their
  history that they tell to their children. They
  also brought rich cultures and traditions.
• These are some of the things that immigrants
  brought to America When they and their family
  immigrated to the United States of America.
  

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Resources

• Scholastic News
• Asian American Heritage
• Boston.com
• PBS